AI-EMPOWERED SAFe®
Implementing SAFe
Become a SAFe Practice Consultant
Become a leading change agent by gaining the expertise to teach, coach, and guide enterprise-wide transformations. This advanced course provides the verified skills to implement the SAFe Framework while integrating AI-empowered strategies that amplify your impact and accelerate value delivery across the entire organization.
Future-proof your coaching career by bridging deep transformation knowledge with modern technology. You will gain the authority to certify others and lead successful SAFe adoptions, leveraging role-specific AI techniques to optimize flow, identify strategic insights, and sustain lasting organizational change at scale.
Advanced level
Recommended pre-requisites:
SAFe for Teams (SP) and Leading SAFe (SA)
Exam
120 minutes, 83% passing score
Certification
Accreditation upon passing exam
Instructor-led
Remote or in-person training
The value of your SAFe Practice Consultant Certification
Certification opens up a world of opportunities, a new career path, and a professional achievement you can keep for the long term. The Implementing SAFe course offers hands-on learning and certification based on proven Agile principles. It equips learners with job-ready skills and a renewable certification to deepen their Agile expertise.
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Benefits of earning your SAFe Practice Consultant Certification
Achieving your certification affords you the exclusive ability to teach SAFe courses to others and unlocks additional resources to deepen your understanding of the SAFe Practice Consultant role.
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Career Development & Community
Access to the SAFe community forums for career advancement, learning and mentorship opportunities, job boards, and more.
Invitations to role-based networking circles.
Exclusive webinars on emerging professional development and SAFe topics tailored to your role.
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Continuous Learning
Full access to the SAFe Framework articles.
SAFe Skills Library for professional development in agile practices.
Certification upgrade learning series.
Continued learning live and recorded webinars from SAFe experts and partners.
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SAFe Training Resources
Value stream mapping and other selected workshops.
On-demand access to all recorded keynotes, breakout sessions, and other content from SAFe Summits.
SAFe assessments to measure and improve business agility and other core competencies.
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Studio Toolkits and Applications
Access to SAFe CoPilot AI assistant.
Role-specific training videos and content.
Toolkits to help prepare and execute PI Planning.
Who Is This Certification For?
You can succeed as an SPC if you have a firm understanding of lean-agile principles and bring a professional background with consulting expertise, project management, product leadership, or portfolio management experience. Prior experience in a specific SAFe role like RTE or product manager can also help position you for success as an SPC.
- Agile Coach
- Project Manager
- Product Manager
- Agile Director
- Release Train Engineer
Elevate your coaching by gaining the authority to certify others and using AI to supplement your facilitation and organizational assessment techniques.
Transition to a high-level change agent role, utilizing AI to streamline complex transformation roadmaps while focusing on Lean-Agile delivery.
Align product strategy with enterprise execution while leveraging AI to assist in value stream identification and strategic backlog prioritization.
Lead department-wide transformations by applying Lean-Agile leadership principles, supported by AI-driven data analysis to ensure strategic alignment.
Elevate your facilitation skills to an enterprise level, utilizing AI to enhance ART execution and better coordinate multiple value streams.
Why Choose SAFe?
#1 Framework for Scaling Agile
Trusted by over 20,000 organizations worldwide and recognized as the most considered and adopted framework globally, SAFe is the proven standard for business agility. It provides a configurable bridge to a new way of working, allowing you to scale effectively regardless of your organization’s size, industry, or complexity. Choose the framework that delivers demonstrated results.
Access a Global Standard
Join over 2 million trained professionals in the world’s largest agile community. SAFe training moves beyond theory with role-based simulations and a comprehensive library of collaboration templates used by top enterprises. You won’t just learn a methodology; you will master the specific tools and practices that define modern business agility.
Learn from Proven Consultants
SAFe training is exclusively delivered by certified SPCTs who have demonstrated real-world expertise in scaling agile. Unlike generic trainers, SPCTs provide deep practical insights into how the framework succeeds in complex environments, ensuring your learning is directly applicable to your career.
Stand Out in the Market
In a competitive job market, SAFe certification validates your expertise in the world’s leading Framework for business agility. Earning your certification proves your value to employers, enhances your professional credibility, and opens doors to new career opportunities and higher earning potential.
What You Will Learn: Enterprise-Scale Transformation
The Implementing SAFe course focuses on the advanced core skills required to guide an organization through a successful Lean-Agile transition. You will learn to coach teams, launch Agile Release Trains, and apply AI tools to increase your efficiency as an expert change agent.
Guide Lean-Agile Transformations
Plan and lead a comprehensive SAFe transformation by applying the implementation roadmap to drive performance, quality, and lasting business agility across the enterprise.
Facilitate Training and Coaching
Gain the exclusive capability to teach a broad set of SAFe courses and coach individuals. Learn to mentor teams and leaders to build a sustainable culture of continuous improvement.
Optimize Organizational Flow
Identify value streams and launch Agile Release Trains to ensure work moves efficiently. Apply objectives and key results to strategic themes to align execution with strategy.
Advance Product Delivery
Practice the principles of Agile product management to build high-quality solutions. Use Lean Portfolio Management techniques to ensure the organization is investing in the right value.
Leverage AI to Amplify Change Leadership
Harness AI fundamentals and prompting techniques tailored for the SPC role to help generate coaching materials, facilitator guides, and transformation artifacts more efficiently.
Apply role-specific AI prompting to improve portfolio transparency, refine backlogs, and facilitate more impactful communication across the Agile Release Train and enterprise.
Utilize the SAFe CoPilot AI assistant to quickly reference Framework guidance and support your ability to provide data-backed recommendations for value stream optimization.
Evaluate AI-generated strategic insights to ensure alignment with Lean-Agile principles, maintaining human-in-the-loop oversight for ethical and high-quality outcomes.
Watch the Implementing SAFe Video to learn more about the course.
Certification Process Includes
- Perpetual access to course workbook and Studio™ for additional preparation
- An unlimited practice test with question-level feedback and coaching report that acts as a simulation and study tool
- Customer support team for service requests
- A timed, multiple-choice exam with a coaching report
Certified Professionals Earn
- Industry-leading AI-Empowered SAFe certification, renewed yearly
- Digital badge with social media share capability to grow your network
- Course Certificate of Completion
- PMI PDUs, Scrum CEUs
Languages Available
Exam Guidelines
Domain
Topics
Adapting and Thriving with SAFe (7-9%)
- Thrive in the age of disruption
- Build a Lean-Agile organization
Building a Foundation with Mindset, Values and Principles (18-21%)
- Understanding the Lean-Agile mindset and SAFe Core Values
- Apply the SAFe Lean-Agile principles
- Empower agility with AI
Establishing Team and Technical Agility (7-9%)
- Describe cross-functional Agile Teams
- Organize around the flow of value with Agile Release Trains (ARTs)
- Built-In Quality practices
- Build and maintain a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps
Product Development Flow (25-28%)
- Apply customer-centricity and Design Thinking
- Prioritize the ART Backlog
- Participate in PI Planning
- Execute the PI
Exploring Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) (25-28%)
- Define a SAFe Portfolio
- Connect the Portfolio to the enterprise strategy
- Maintain the Portfolio Vision
- Realize the Portfolio Vision through Epics
- Establish Portfolio flow
- Apply AI tools to LPM
Leading the Change (7-9%)
- Lead by example
- Lead the change
- Empower leaders with AI
Reaching the SAFe Tipping Point (4-6%)
- Establish the vision for change
- Build a powerful guiding coalition
Designing the Implementation (5-7%)
- Identify value streams and ARTs
- Create the Implementation plan
Launching an ART (7-9%)
- Prepare for an ART Launch
- Training teams and launching the ART
- Facilitating distributed PI Planning
Coaching ART Execution (5-7%)
- Run an Inspect and Adapt event for Continuous Improvement
- Run a Problem Solving Workshop
Large Solution Integration and Delivery (7-9%)
- Understand larger solution integration and delivery
- Launch additional ARTs and Value Streams
- Operate a Solution Train
- Integrate and deliver large solutions
Enhancing the Portfolio (9-11%)
- Support portfolio operations
- Measure Portfolio performance
- Unlock strategy agility
Accelerating Business Agility (12-14%)
- Measure and grow
- Accelerating flow
- Customizing SAFe
*Maintaining Your Credential
You will be required to earn a minimum of 24 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) within your two-year certification cycle. This amounts to 12 CEUs annually.
Resources for SAFe Practice Consultants
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